> From: chammer@hrz.uni-bielefeld.de
> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 13:47:55 MET

> I suggested sharing of major/minor numbers a long time ago.
> This was more with a shared filesystem in mind. 
> Together with fat binaries you *need* the same
> major/minor ids (or at least it needs uniq numbers) for
> root disks,ttys etc..

Another way (which I prefer) is to eliminate MAKEDEV and let
the kernel make the device nodes for us, possibly in a special
filesystem for that purpose, automatically mounted on /dev/.

Gordon